They may well have landed in LA. FWIW, i'm just quoting John Fogarty referencing his tuck n roll Kustom amp and speaker that he plays thru on a DVD i have.Oh well,I couldn't remember was trying to remember from memory.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8PyvqsuYlU
Nope. Kustom Electronics was never in LA. Started in Chanute.
Split into two companies Kustom Signal And Kustom Electronics. Kustom went belly up around when Altec did- musical division bought out by music distributor Davitt-Hanser and moved to Cincy (Hebron,Ky), still there but all rice burner stuff. Kustom Signal is still in Chanute.
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If you have never seen one, a "roll and pleat" police radar....
Vintage radar unit for police car restos.
That horn AB posted is the Cerwin Vega, fins were deleted on newer models.
Vintage Kustom Kasino FEVER 4x12 Horn Speaker Cabinet - Guitar museum
VintageKustom.com: Replacement Part Suggestions ? Kustom III PA Horn Driver
NOT at all the same horn. They are all 1 inch screw on. Note 3 screws across the top, 4 on the eBay horn.
CV made a large 1.4 radial for Kustom, EV designed an MF-1012 driver. It was the EV DH 1012 and Altec 906 LATER. Hartley Peavey wanted the 1012. Kustom had enough clout that he couldn't get shipped.
" Peavey’s first entry into high power high
efficiency sound systems utilized Altec components
which sounded reasonably good, but proved to be
woefully inadequate in terms of reliability. We blew out
so many 808-driver diaphragms that the Marketing
Manager of Altec refused to supply Peavey with
replacement diaphragms leaving hundreds of our
customers upset and angry since Peavey couldn’t
supply replacement Altec diaphragms….
I looked for other sources and found
that Electro-Voice was about to introduce a new high
power high frequency driver with 3” voice coil called
the DH-1012 … I placed an order for 1,000 of these
drivers at $100 each… After placing the purchase order,
we waited patiently for many months with no “word”
from EV. One afternoon I got a call from an ex-Kustom
salesman named Bob Belfield inquiring about the
possibly of a job. (It is important to know that Kustom
was then the exclusive distributor for EV’s line of SRO
speakers). In any case, Belfield advised me that “EV
would not be honoring our long outstanding purchase
order”…. As I hung up the phone, I wondered if this
“advice” was B.S. or if indeed, Belfield knew something
that I didn’t. I placed a call to Electro-Voice and asked
for, their OEM Marketing Manager. When he got on the
phone, I asked him directly if the info that I heard was
correct…. He stuttered for a moment before advising
me that indeed EV would NOT honor our purchase
order!.."
Closest thing I have ever seen to that is Zomax, not vintage. They made an 811 type horn with 1" 1.4" and 2 inch changeable throat. Also one about halfway between a 311/511. Zomax had split AFAIK Prozomax is out of business the current Zomax does not make it.
If I had to pick another option looks sorta Vitavox, but if so is undocumented, Vitavox did do custom stuff.
Last edited by Old Guy; April 6th, 2012 at 07:17 PM.
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